The diff is Pan and Kane were both wings and Pan was 23 and not a 19 year old center. Pan and Kane scored alot of points but history shows you that they both would score alot with our without each other. Bedards one weakness is size so putting him with another player that struggles with the physical part of the game does not make sense to me. Kane and Pan were a dyanmic PP a good off 5 vs 5 line but pretty bad on the Def end.
Not sure how you got retirement from that. Hard for me to think Kane would work so hard to come back from a major hip surgery just to retire after being super productive.
I don't know. Seems to me there are quite a few bridge deals for good players that fall below that.
I never said they have to trade the late firsts. I said keep the first and 2 in the 20-50 range and look to move the rest. Never said light them on fire like KD does with danny boys' money.
His contract doesnt have a ntc/nmc, if he becomes that player, you can trade him for a first+ in 26 or 27 no?
and possibly sell him off depending on the contract.
Pretty sure he just said last week he may play until he is 40.
My guess is that it was Faulkner and Danny that decided Kane was leaving, not Kyle. But who knows.
one thing you need to remember is its not like Agents reach out and offer home town discounts. My guess is if they engaged kane 1.5 ago to resign they probably ask for something just slightly less then what he was making. (10.5) with term. with older players you at times need them to hit the market and see what they are worth. the you played well for a long time we will reward you contract does not work in a cap league. I think Kane leaving was inevitable. let him try a different city. Let him see what the market is for 35 year old player. I think now they both can be on the same page. also do you think Kane wanted to be on the ice for there 20 game road losing streak. now that we are actually starting to slowly build at least we are getting better. knowing you will be worse next year is pretty demoralizing for a athlete. I give it 1/3 chance he ends up in Chi on a 3 year deal. IMO
That will (looking at this draft) likely be a fringe player at best. … this is a very shallow draft.
Still doesn't answer the question of why trade away even a "fringe" player (which even in the shallowest of draft there will be good players taken well after 20 so that is on our amatuer scouting dept) when you can offer any of a dozen UFA wingers the 4X5 remaining on Farabees contract and have several takers.
IDK that I'd go that high. I'd do 2x6m and then watch the magic of Bedard and Kane setting each other up constantly for the next couple years.
he would get more then that on the open market he was on 75 pt pace 35 goals. we are not going to be near the cap for 5 years. Moore rinzel greene lardis Kantserov or top 3 picks this year are not even going to be on ELC next year. (maybe Celebrini or Leshinhnov) you cannot be at the cap in 3 years with no money to pay the core.
I'd go that high knowing we need to set money aside for when Bedard/KK/Nazar all need to be re-signed.
Because UFA’s are 2-3 years older and don’t fit the time line. Maybe when the bulk of the kids are 23-24 you sign a 28 year old.
the magic of Kane and Bedard never getting the puck out of their own zone.
Are they back in Chicago? The (non) wife and kid were in Buffalo for the majority of the last year. His mom is there after pretty much living with Kane downtown for 2 years. … his sister just had a baby.
